tempobet yeni adresi

EN NL
like this cd / digital review

07/08/2020 : FAUST PROJECT - The Future Comes On Sleeping Pills

FAUST PROJECT

The Future Comes On Sleeping Pills

MusicCD / Digital
Cold WavePost Punk

[88/100]   

Analog Wasteland Records
07/08/2020, Jurgen BRAECKEVELT

EN

After the release of the very tasty EP 'Somewhere Between The Shadows There's a Place Called Us' in the spring of 2019, Faust will release a full album in 2020. Manu Gillard's one-man project brings us Dark-Wave, Cold-Wave and Post-Punk with an undertone of tension and fear.

Emmanuel Gillard has been active in the music scene since the 1990s, also as a member of the bands Nervous Chillin', Poison Heart, Motueka and Hell-o-tiki. After more than 20 years touring all over Europe and sharing the stage with bands like The Misfits, UK Subs, The Buzzcocks, Alien Sex Fiend, The Dandy Warhols, etc. he felt it was about time to go his own way. After the aforementioned EP there now is the full-fledged 'The Future Comes On Sleeping Pills'.

So what’s cooking? Very compelling tasty postpunk with delicious guitars, tight bass lines and regular solid noisy flavors that give it all bit of spiciness and sharpness. ‘October’ is such a witty one, as is ‘Tornado’, which tends somewhat towards Shoe-Gaze due to the distorted and sharpened guitar sounds. Tired and decrepit, the song seems to drags along while a number of solid guitar lashes offer some breathing space again.

‘Life Won't Wait’ is a bit more rock-oriented and a bit sweeter sounding, while ‘Payback’ is more psychedelic and flirty with a great bass line.

This album contains several gems, like ’Eleven Ways’, a particularly shiny one. A bit more Dark-Wave, restrained and yet it cuts right through you. Bone-dry drums offer an enchanting cadence. Then we get some variety with ‘Injecté', cranking itself up with dark electronics only to become a Cold-Wave song with an early The Cure sound, but with French lyrics. The song ‘Hideout’ takes a step further into the electronic universe. Accompanied by overwhelming guitar play, this is a very intense song.

‘Fait and Hate’ is a song with a firm Minimal-Wave / Dark-Wave content. Here Emmanuel is very frugal with his instruments, which makes it grace brilliance in its simplicity. Sometimes it doesn’t take a lot to create a masterpiece. ‘Ghost Rider’ is a bit of an outsider on this album. A bit more electro-experimental while guitars take over control halfway through.

With this album Faust firmly secures its place in the post-punk scene. Their first EP was already strong and this release is more than just a copy-paste. You will notice how Faust masters this genre, better still how inspired. Fresh music from Belgian soil for your enjoyment!

Jurgen BRAECKEVELT
07/08/2020


NL

Na een heel smakelijke EP Somewhere between the shadows there’s a place called us in het voorjaar van 2019 komt Faust in 2020 met een volwaardig album. Het éénmansproject van Manu Gillard brengt darkwave, coldwave en postpunk met een ondertoon van spanningen en angst.

Emmanuel Gillard is al sedert de jaren 1990 actief in de muzikscène, o.a. als lid van de bands Nervous Chillin', Poison Heart, Motueka en Hell-o-tiki. Na meer dan 20 jaar toeren door gans Europa en het delen van het podium met bands als The Misfits, UK Subs, The Buzzcocks, Alien Sex Fiend, The Dandy Warhols, etc. vond hij het hoog tijd zijn eigen pad te gaan bewandelen. Na de EP is er nu het volwaardige The Future Comes On Sleeping Pills.

En wat schaft de pot? Heel meeslepende en lekker smakende postpunk met zalige gitaren, strakke baslijnen en regelmatig stevige noisy smaken die het geheel wat pittigheid en snedigheid geven. October is zo’n snedige knakker, evenals Tornado dat door de overstuurde en geslepen gitaarsound neigt naar shoegaze. Moe en afgeleefd sleept de song zich voort, tot een aantal stevige gitaaruithalen het geheel weer wat ademruimte bieden.

Life Won’t Wait is wat meer rock-georiënteerd en klinkt wat zoeter, Payback dan weer wat psychedelischer en flou. Zalige baslijn heeft deze song.

Dit album bevat verschillende pareltjes. Zo'n blinkend kleinood is Eleven Ways. Wat meer darkwave, ingetogen en toch snijdt het dwars door je heen. De kurkdroge drums reiken een bezwerende kadans aan. We krijgen wat afwisseling met Injecté dat zichzelf aanzwengelt met donkere electronica en dan een coldwave-song wordt met de sound van early The Cure en Franse lyrics. Zo gaat Hideout nog een stapje verder op de electronische highway. Vergezeld van overweldigend gitaarwerk is dit een heel intens nummer.

Fait and Hate is dan weer een song met een hoog minimal-wave/darkwave-gehalte. Hier is Emmanuel heel zuinig met instrumenten, maar siert in de eenvoud ook de genialiteit. Soms is niet meer nodig dan dit om een meesterwerk te maken. Ghost Rider is dan als uitsmijter op dit album ietwat een buitenbeentje. Wat meer experimenteel in een electro-jasje, waarbij de gitaren ruim halfweg de zeggenschap overnemen.

Faust zet zich met dit album ferm op de postpunk-kaart. De eerste EP was al sterk en dit is meer dan een doorslagje. Je hoort hoe doorwinterd Faust in het genre is, hoe geïnspireerd ook. Nieuw Belgisch werk dat meer dan gesmaakt kan worden.

Jurgen BRAECKEVELT
07/08/2020


 

Next reviews
TECHNOLORGY • Carnivore
OST+FRONT • Ikarus
SHE HATES EMOTIONS • Melancholic Maniac
HER OWN WORLD • A Different Kind Of Reality
JAYE JAYLE • PRISYN
PORTION CONTROL • Head Buried
AIMA & THE ILLUSION OF SILENCE • Music for certain rituals
VARIOUS ARTISTS • PERIHELION 2134
COLD IN MAY • Isolation songs
UNITCODE:MACHINE • Paper empires

 

Other reviews from FAUST PROJECT
FAUST PROJECT • Somewhere between the shadows there’s a place called us

 

Same combination of genres: COLD WAVE + POST PUNK
AGENT SIDE GRINDER • Jack Vegas
AGENT SIDE GRINDER • Jack Vegas
SYGO CRIES • In Outside Places
RINGFINGER • Pressure
MOONLIGHT MEADOW • Moonlight Meadow
NAIROD YARG • Nairod Yarg
JESUS LIVES IN VEGAS • Jesus Lives In Vegas
WHISPERING SONS • Image
A.D. MANA • A.D. Mana
O VEUX • O Veux

 

Same genre: COLD WAVE
THE ULTIMATE DREAMERS • Paradoxical Sleep
OTHER-ED • Until All Are Free
THE CURE • Songs Of A Lost World
CIERN • Flawless
LOVATARAXX • Tilda Vaast
BALVANERA • Courses of Action
THE ULTIMATE DREAMERS • Live Happily While Waiting For Death
SYGO CRIES • End Of A Century
THE MIDNIGHT COMPUTERS • Anxious
HYSTÉRIE • Deuil

 

Same genre: POST PUNK
CORPUS DELICTI • Liminal
SUBATOMIC STRANGERS • Resuwrecked
RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY • Strange Kind Of Paradise
BRIDES • Sandcastle
BLACK ROSE MOVES • Death Dance
SUBTERFUGE • Dividing Times
BLACK RAIN • Black Rain
GHOSTING • All Your Dreams
THE FUNERAL MARCH • It All Falls Apart
THE VERY THINGS • Mr. Arc-Eye (Under A Cellophane Sky)

Music reviews

15
01
KMFDM
ENEMY
14
01
THE ULTIMATE DREAMERS
Kids Alone EP
13
01
ROUGUE UNIT VS DARKVOLT
The Truth
10
01
THE JUGGERNAUTS
The Juggernauts Are Coming - Extended
09
01
MESH
Exile
07
01
PISTON DAMP
Downfall

NEWSLETTER

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

NEWS

15
01
The Dreams Will Always Linger | Remembering Dolores O’Riordan - 8 Year Anniversary
14
01
Today, 47 years ago, the Sex Pistols played their historic 'last' show! Watch it here!!
14
01
On this night, 47 years ago, Joy Division played at King Kong, Antwerp (B)!
12
01
Happy Birthday Rob Zombie! (61)
12
01
Happy birthday Blixa Bargeld (67)! (Einstürzende Neubauten)
11
01
On this day 41 years ago, Nina Hagen performed in front of 1,5 million people on the first edition of world’s biggest festivals Rock in Rio (Brazil).

Concert reviews

03
11
FIX:8 SED:8 - MILDREDA - DATA VOID - 2ND FACE
Lessons in Humility Tour - The underground Vision - Oostende - 31 oktober 2025
24
10
PROJECT PITCHFORK
Live, 23 October 2025, Waregem, B
17
08
KRAFTWERK
Royal Palace Open Air - Brussels - August 14 2025
22
04
GAVIN FRIDAY
Live at 404 / De Vooruit - Ghent - 01/04.2025

GET A COPY OF OUR MAGAZINE
SEND TO YOUR HOME

INTERVIEWS

17
12
THE LAST DECADE
“Tonight we will be one. There is no choice on our run.“
15
12
JEROME FROESE
“Through Wasteland Methods, Towards the Evening Star, the Dream Keeps Spiraling Into Eternity.“
12
12
BLACK ROSE MOVES
“I lose myself, with every step that I take, In this dark, twisted world, my senses slowly awake.“
29
11
THE JUGGERNAUTS
“One day the ground will crumble. Disappear from underneath.You will feel yourself tumble. In this cold black hole beneath.“
27
11
DARKWAYS
“I like the night, Darkness is my only friend. I like the night, And the night likes me.”

PHOTOS

28
12
PROJECT-X
Bimfest XXIII St Niklaas
28
12
MAJESTOLUXE
Bimfest XXIII St Niklaas
28
12
THEY FEEL NOTHING
Bimfest XXIII St Niklaas
28
12
ZWEITE JUGEND
Bimfest XXIII St Niklaas
28
12
AKALOTZ
Bimfest XXIII St Niklaas
27
12
EUFORIC EXISTENCE
Bimfest XXIII St Niklaas
27
12
CAT RAPES DOG
Bimfest XXIII St Niklaas

ADVERTISE
IN PEEK-A-BOO

VIDEO CLIPS

15
01
DIVE
Far Away (Live)
14
01
KITE
True Colours
13
01
THE SMITHS
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
12
01
TEST DEPT: REDUX
Faces of Freedom (HeadFuck) NOzone Mix – Test Dept
11
01
A SPLIT-SECOND
Colonial Discharge (Approved fan-made video)
10
01
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT
Collapse Of History
09
01
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence